Author : Aimee Felicity Komugabe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Mid-to Late-holocene Environmental Changes in the Southwest Pacific by : Aimee Felicity Komugabe
Download or read book Mid-to Late-holocene Environmental Changes in the Southwest Pacific written by Aimee Felicity Komugabe and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent climatic changes in the southwest Pacific have placed this region in the spotlight, as ocean warming is 3 to 4 times faster than the average global warming rate. Current understanding of these changes can be improved by obtaining a good baseline through investigating past natural variability during the Holocene. However, the absence of well-dated palaeoclimate information in this region limits efforts to reconstruct climatic changes. In this study, high-resolution mid- to late-Holocene radiocarbon and trace element records were retrieved using deep-sea (100 - 1000 m) organic black corals from the Tasman Sea (Southwest Pacific). Uranium-series (U-Th) dating methods were modified to increase precision of the ages obtained for low uranium (